Chance me for Yale/Princeton? Will chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm currently a junior and I plan on majoring in economics or political science, but I'm not sure yet. </p>

<p>Female/ Asian/Upper Middle Class
Suburban public school
SAT: 2400 (first sitting)
PSAT: 235 (most likely National Merit Semifinalist)
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
Rank: 1/350 something freshman and sophomore year, should be top 5 this year as well
SAT IIs: Registered for Lit and US History this June, hoping for 750+</p>

<p>Current classes: AP Language and Composition, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics, AP US History, Debate, School Newspaper
Expected senior year classes: AP Gov, AP Macro Economics, AP Micro Economics, AP Lit, AP Stat, AP Bio, School Newspaper
AP scores so far: AP Human Geography (5), AP Euro (5), AP Environmental Science (5)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:
- President: Quiz Bowl Team
- Co-President: Mock Trial
- President (Secretary-General): Model UN
- Secretary: Leo Club (school service club)
- Business Manager/Op-Ed Editor: School Newspaper
- Future Business Leaders of America member for three years
-National Honor Society
- ANNpower Fellow (prestigious leadership conference - one of 50 out of over 1000 applicants chosen. Met with Hillary Clinton, mentored by Kah Walla, etc)
- TASP finalist - will find out if I get in by the end of this month
- Accepted to business governor's school this summer </p>

<p>Awards:
- Placed top 3 at FBLA States for two years, qualified for nationals (1st Place - Introduction to Business Communication, 3rd Place - Personal Finance)
- Several Model UN awards (Best Delegate, etc)
- Penn State Essay Award
- Quiz Bowl League Most Valuable Player</p>

<p>Service:
- 100+ hours with Child Evangelism Fellowship, a religious organization
- Volunteer weekly at local hospital
- 250+ hours overall</p>

<p>Please chance me for: Yale (early action), Princeton, Harvard, UPenn, Northwestern, Georgetown, Amherst, Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Penn State Honors College</p>

<p>Thank you! Don't be afraid to be leave suggestions and be brutally honest :) </p>

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<p>Like everyone says, they’re reaches for everyone. Though with your academic excellence and good ECs, you should be a good applicant. In my opinion, and from my experience, you’ll get accepted at at least one of the HYPS and maybe waitlisted/accepted at the others, if you prove to be a good essay writer… and of course… they just like you.</p>

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<p>Northwestern, G-town, Penn State, and possibly UNC are all matches. </p>

<p>The rest are reaches. </p>

<p>Tbh, you are a lot like other applicants. Try to set yourself apart. What makes you different and unique. </p>

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<p>You are a highly competitive applicant and I can see you getting accepted at least one of the HYPS. Northwestern and Georgetown are incredible matches if your heart is not set on Ivy.</p>

<p>In your applications, focus on what makes you unique and special: it is diversity and “standing out from the crowd” that these top schools want to see. Ivy’s are reaches for everyone, but you certainly have a competitive application.</p>

<p>Consider Cornell as a choice. I feel like this would be a perfect fit for your stats. </p>

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<p>Wow. You are incredibly good- and I don’t need you to chance me either, you are very competitive among other applicants! Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>Your stats are impeccable. Yours ECs are a 9/10. You are going to need to right great essays and then your in to most of the places. </p>

<p>HYP- reach, no matter how good you are
Penn- high match/low reach
Northwestern, Duke,Amherst- match to high match
UNC- match In state, high match OOS but slightly easier than NW, Duke
Penn State- Saftey</p>

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<p>Yale (early action): High Match
Princeton Low Reach
Harvard Low Reach
UPenn High Match
, Northwestern Mid, high match
Georgetown high match
Amherst high match
Duke match
UNC Chapel Hill low match
Penn State Honors College safety</p>

<p>get a couple more safeties schools in case but you should be good for yale and at least 2 other high ranked schools. you’re very accomplished!! ;)</p>

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<p>I find it really impressive that you’re taking BC as a junior. I definitely think you have a great chance at all of these schools.</p>

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<p>Calc BC as a junior has become more commonplace with many of the top tier school applicants. It’s not impressive, but it certainly does look good. Anyone on here that says Yale is a high match… take it back… there is not “matching” with ivy leagues short of curing cancer or donating a whole new science wing to a school. On the other hand, I would say that she has a “high match” of getting into at least one of HYPS etc. She could be accepted to more than one, but with the selectivity of colleges nowadays and the competition, it’s just unlikely you get into more than one unless you’re a minority with great achievement and personal qualities. </p>

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<p>Yale (early action): Mid Reach (only b/c EA)
Princeton Reach
Harvard Reach
UPenn Low Reach
Northwestern Mid high match
Georgetown high match
Amherst high match
Duke high match
UNC Chapel Hill low match
Penn State Honors College safety</p>

<p>You are a very impressive applicant and the only thing that stands out to me are your awards. They are great but they will not help set you apart(if that’s part of what you were hoping. For example, so many kids go to FBLA nats is not much of an award). </p>

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<p>Your application looks strong throughout. No really spectacular EC’s that set you apart, but many good ones.</p>

<p>HYP: really hard to “chance”, but I think you will get into one of them
UPenn: high match
Northwestern: match
Georgetown: match
Amherst: high match
Duke: match
UNC: match if OOS, safety if IS
Penn State: safety</p>

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<p>Many competitive colleges first weed out applicants with relatively weak academics. Yours are absolutely strong enough to get you noticed. </p>

<p>HYP: It’s a crapshoot, but you’ve got as good a chance as any.
UPenn, Northwestern, Georgetown: Don’t know much about their admissions.
Amherst: Fair chance
Duke: match - though you may have a disadvantage being Asian - not sure if they have quotas or not, but an Asian friend of mine with SATs in the 2380-2400 range got waitlisted. Also beware of Duke math! From various sources, I’ve heard Math 32 has a vicious curve and is the most failed class.
UNC: safety (~99% confidence - according to Cappex, my chances are 98%, and your test scores are higher than mine)
Penn State: safety</p>

<p>Hope this is helpful. :)</p>

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<p>hyp: reach
u penn nw georgetown: high match/low reach
amherst match
duke high match
unc match
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<p>On the above posts. Taking BC as a junior isn’t that amazing… Almost every single competitive Ivy applicant does so. In my class alone, myself included, there are 14 juniors out of 40 total students taking Calc BC. It’s impressive to take MVC to DiffEqs are a junior, or even a sophomore. Also, your chances were WAY too optimistic. While you’re an impeccable student, the schools you want to go to turn down the most qualified applicants to limited seats</p>

<p>Yale (early action): Reach
Princeton High Reach
Harvard High Reach
UPenn Reach
, Northwestern : Low Reach
Georgetown Low Reach
Amherst Low Reach
Duke Reach (I don’t even know what the hell the guy saying match was thinking)
UNC Chapel Hill Match
Penn State Honors College Low Match</p>

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<p>Ivies are a reach</p>

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<p>@bluberaptor‌ In our school (she and I go to the same school), only 10 juniors out of about 80 people who were qualified for BC took BC. I was one of those 10. In our school, taking BC as a junior (and AP Lang too) is suicide. Sure taking MVC or Linear Algebra or something at a local college is better, but when you are in the middle of nowhere with your school offering no mathematics-related dual enrollment programs, this is the best you have. Sure, taking the opportunity to reach out and see whether you really want to take MVC (if you are interested in mathematics, and she is not - see above) is good, but not for her.</p>

<p>I also don’t see how Schreyers Honors College is a low match. It’s one of the best (and one of the most selective) honors programs in the nation. Also, I would say Duke is a High Match or Low Reach. I don’t see how it’s just a reach. So stop going around CC feeling all superior just because you think you’re so good and everyone else won’t get in. If you’re one of those people who says that everyone’s college selections are Reaches and then hopes that they won’t apply just so you have a better chance, please just stop right now. And you’re just showing your idiocy saying inaccurate things (especially about Schreyers - please don’t say that Penn State’s Honors Program is bad).</p>

<p>It all depends on how the college compares applicants to applicants of the same high school, and she’s very impressive in our impressive class of 2015.</p>

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<p>@redwall1521
What are you talking about? @bluberaptor is right, most applicants take BC as a junior. You can see that by the numerous “chance” threads here. </p>

<p>As for your second paragraph, that is some weird logic. He/she wants to convince people not to apply so he has a better chance? </p>

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<p>@wannabefeynman‌
No, people like blueraptor will just influence people not to apply to the competitive schools so he can have a better chance of getting in.
And also, our high school is very isolated from the good colleges, such as UPenn or Swarthmore, which are both about 30-45 minutes away. Also, our school doesn’t offer dual enrollment programs in mathematics, so BC is the highest level of math you can achieve in our school.
What I mean is that colleges will see that BC is the highest level in our school, and if she doesn’t seek anything more, then that’s fine (obviously, seeking higher level math courses is good, but not required for competitiveness). Colleges will recognize that not many people take BC as a junior in our school (and our counselor will say that in his letter of recommendation) and therefore she may not be as “normal” as the rest of the applicants who take BC as a junior.</p>

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<p>@redwall1521‌ Are you really that ill-informed? Duke has an acceptance rate of 17% and your friend isn’t even as qualified as mediocre for that school. Reach means less than 20% chance of acceptance. You’re right that they compare her to kids from your school, but they also compare her to kids around the nation such as ones that live in Silicon Valley in which even Sophomores take Calculus BC as juniors. If you, and your friend believe that taking BC and AP Lang as a junior is suicidal, then you both don’t belong to Ivy League. Most Ivy League students take 4 AP’s as sophomores, 6-7 AP’s as juniors, and 5-6 AP’s as seniors.</p>

<p>BC is also the highest level of math at my school, but Ivy’s look for go-getters. If she stops at BC she’ll hardly seem average in the eyes of the admissions officer which is fine by me. I’m all for everyone applying to these schools, but the point of this website is for kids to realize where they stand compared to other students that are applying to the same schools and programs. </p>

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<p>@bluberaptor
I wouldn’t go as far as saying he/she is not even qualified as mediocre, but I agree with the rest of your post. </p>